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Comment by Zanzari

For generations, the Stormstout Brewery has been a font of joy for the citizens of Pandaria, pumping out an endless-seeming supply of delicious and refined beverages without appearing to break stride. The Stormstout family has enjoyed and supported the Brewery’s continued significance, and kept diligent watch over their recipes and the perfection of their stills – until today. In the absence of any more able Stormstout, management of the building has recently fallen to Uncle Gao Stormstout…to the detriment of everyone who has ever enjoyed a cold drink. On Gao’s "watch," loathsome Virmen have broken through the brewery’s massive oak doors and ravaged the Stormstout’s stores of rice and barley; local Hozen have also begun cracking into casks left and right, spurring a destructive revel that threatens to devastate the Valley’s supply. As if that weren’t enough, the brew itself has begun to spoil – in the worst way possible.

Comment by Radeghost

Stormstout Brewery is the new 5-man featured in Mists of Pandaria. At 90 level it will be possible to run it on heroic mode. Also, it will be possible to run SB in Challenge mode!

Comment by Nobbel

A beta video guide on how to do Stormstout Brewery (normal & heroic mode):
Normal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daX2uzklNzo&hd=1
Heroic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u79yFR320CI&hd=1
Enjoy ^_^

Comment by ankorafeonix

This was a really fun dungeon in my opinion. The first boss Ook-ook was a little easy, considering two of our dps were locked outside and we managed to finish it with few worries. There are some barrels rolling around that explode on impact, but they're easy to avoid.

The Hoptallus section made me think of the white rabbit in Monty Python... I just wanted to throw "thine holy hand grenade" in there and run!

The last boss feels like he'll be a little tickier - there seemed to be a debuff he puts on you that means you have to run through little orbs of... fizzy drink? Yum.

Fun run!

Comment by zerynax

Ok, here is some tips for the first and 3rd boss:

First: Roll barrels into him, they give him a 20% increased dmg taken debuff for 30 seconds, and it stacks.

3rd boss: He got several abilities that are picked at random with each dungeon, but there is 3 to pay attention to:

One: Some %^&* on the ground I forgot the name of, I think it was Carbonize, when he fills the floor with this, go click on one of the orbs and then fly off the ground (Just like Kael'Thas, Flying mounts, Malygos and anything else that includes flying)

Two: He spawns some adds that heals him for absurd amounts, burn these down ASAP!

Three: He drops a buff on everyone every so often called Blackout Brew I think it was, it stacks every 2-3 seconds you stay still, up to 10, at which you will fall asleep for 10 seconds I think it was, you reduce the stacks simply by moving, jumping and similar works, turning around in circles does not, it needs to be actual movement (Just like the last boss in The Nexus(Kolistrasza or what the dragons name was) with the increased dmg taken buff, same deal)

PS: This is from the Beta, it is subject to change!

Comment by kianah

Not one single item for plate Dps. i won't be going in there with my warrior or dk.

Comment by perculia

The minimum ilvl for queueing on normal is ilvl 358.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##perculia##DELIM##

Comment by bravosierra630

question on rolling the barrels into ook-ook... Right after the pull (i'm the tank) I hopped on a barrel that was rolling by and rolled it into ook. But it didn't explode... i just rolled straight through him.

Anyone else have this problem?

Edit: thanks for the downvote... I didn't realize seeking others' input on an issue I encountered made this a "bad post"

Comment by bravosierra630

I didn't see it in any of the videos people have posted... but after you beat ook-ook, the two giant Hozen, and about two dozen of the smaller ones starting dancing with spotlights and music... it's quite comical.

Also, after completing the entire dungeon, if you port out and then port back in, you are put in the giant barrel that's behind the second boss.

Comment by 1038398

My 2 cents;

Ook-Ook,pretty simple when you assign 1 or 2 people to run barrels into him. Simply 'mount' the barrels and steer into him so he gets the debuff. Two or three barrels per throw of casks is doable and stacks some increased damage debuff.

Hoptallus is not too hard either. Simply start and engage. Every once in awhile he calls for some adds, smaller and bigger. The bigger leave some kind of mace or club, three charges, with which you can really put down some damage. Have someone keep the club until the next add phase. You can easily down the next round with one or two hits from the club. Rince and repeat until down.

Yan-Zhu the uncasked is somewhat harder. He summons some kind of bubble adds in a circle.These seem to heal him, so kill asap. When large bubbles appear everywhere, you can enter the bubble en jump up inthe air. You can move about freely and out of harms way because below the beer is a'churnin.
Yan-Zhu also buffs you with black-out brew. Ranged dps can quite easily avoid a build-up of ten stacks by strafing, melee and tank probably need to do the same (feed-back, anyone?). In the meanwhile keep dpsing away as always.
All in all, pretty doable.

Comment by Erycius

To prevent the little adds from healing, stand inside the orange beam they cast and receive the healing (and mana regeneration) buff yourself, much like the green beams in the Netherspite encounter. This also holds for the second trash pack that spawns before the boss.

Comment by EnDsInRuBy

Some reason the music in this instance reminds me of SWTOR....

Comment by Seahnjin

Wiping after the second boss (so on Yan-Zhu, most likely) and zoning back into the instance will port you in a strange place full of rabbits, with the caption "You can't remember how you ended up here". Made me laugh.

Comment by Wolvigar

I'd like to point out that you can predetermine Yan-Zhu the Uncasked's (Yan-Zhu the Uncasked) abilities by the three types of adds you encounter after Hoptallus but before Yan-Zhu himself.

Encountering Sudsy Brew Alementals (Sudsy Brew Alemental) means that two abilities will be present during the Yan-Zhu fight. They are:

Wall of Suds, which is granted to Yan-Zhu. (Wall of Suds)

Sudsy, which is granted to players. (Sudsy)

Encountering Bubbling Brew Alementals (Bubbling Brew Alemental) means that one ability will be present during the Yan-Zhu fight. It is:

Bubble Shield, which is granted to Yan-Zhu. (Bubble Shield)

Encountering Stout Brew Alementals (Stout Brew Alemental) means that one ability will be present during the Yan-Zhu fight. It is:

Blackout Brew, which is granted to Yan-Zhu. (Blackout Brew)

Encountering Bloated Brew Alementals (Bloated Brew Alemental) means that one ability will be present during the Yan-Zhu fight. It is:

Bloat, which is granted to Yan-Zhu. (Bloat)

Encountering Yeasty Brew Alementals (Yeasty Brew Alemental) means that two(technically, three) abilities will be present during the Yan-Zhu fight. They are:

Yeasty Brew Alemental, which allows Yan-Zhu to summon NPC's of the same name to aid him.
Ferment, which is granted to the NPC's that Yan-Zhu summons. (Ferment)

Brew Bolt, which is granted to the NPC's that Yan-Zhu summons. (Brew Bolt)

Encountering Fizzy Brew Alementals (Fizzy Brew Alemental) means that two abilities will be present during the Yan-Zhu fight. They are:

Carbonation, which is granted to Yan-Zhu. (Carbonation)

Fizzy Bubble, which is granted to players. (Fizzy Bubble)

Simply look at the names of the adds and the abilities they use, and you'll be able to predetermine what Yan-Zhu will be able to use when you fight him.

Comment by Rynna

This has to be one of my favorite MOP heroic dungeons. The whole idea of interrupting the hozen party seemed fun, as well as rolling barrels into Ook-ook.

First, you will encounter tough hozen, who are being controlled by water and fire spirits. Slay the spirits and the hozens' health will be halved, and its damage reduced. Afterwards, you will enter a room where you should attack the explosive barrels in the room, which will instantly kill the sleeping hozen, (this will quickly increase the number of party-goers disrupted, thus quickening the spawning of the first boss, Ook-ook).

The fight is rather simple. Your group needs to dodge the barrels in motion, (or hop on them and run them into the boss, to increase his damage taken,) and move behind Ook-ook when he begins to cast ground pound, (which is a stunning and rather high damaging move).

After slaying Ook-ook, you will leave the building, and follow the wooden balcony. In this area between the first and second boss, weak adds will repeatedly spawn and chase your group. Ignore them until you reach the second boss, Hoptallus' room, where you should aoe them down quickly, and use one of the glowing hammers dropped by the adds, to instantly kill the smallest adds.

This boss is rather easy if your group takes the ever-spawning adds into account. During the fight make sure the healer or dps is using the glowing hammers on the group of adds, (which should be in a group, stacked on your tank). The only move of Hoptallus, that does decent damage is the Furlwind ability, which can be avoided by backing away from him, when he begins casting it.

After this boss, your group will need to battle with a few alementals with a few dangerous abilities. If you see a puddle of suds under the alemental, have the tank move the add to a close, yet safe location. If you see the blackout brew debuff on yourself, just keep moving around, and you will not have to worry about the sleeping effect.

The entire heroic goes by very quickly, until the final room of the instance, (the third boss, Yan-Zhu the Uncasked's room). In this room, your group must fight with multiple adds, in different quantities, health pools, and abilities. The adds' abilities should be the same as the first few alementals you encountered, just after Hoptallus.

For the final boss fight, you fight one very large, alemental. He is able to use all 3 abilities, which his previous adds had. After dealing with the past alementals, you will know how to avoid each ability. The other important aspect of this fight, is the bubble shield ability Yan-Zhu uses. When he activates this, attack the bubbles scattered around him.

I hope this guide will help you with any problems that may arise during your run, and that you enjoy this heroic as much as myself.

Comment by Relwyn

Just soloed up to and including Ook-Ook as a warlock on normal setting. It seems standing with your back right up against the large barrel which is blocking the doorway allows you to avoid being hit by barrels.

I sent Voidy in to keep him occupied while I used dots etc from a distance, kept healing Voidy and draining Ook when my life got low. Took a good while but eventually he died! Now to try the rabbits!

Comment by pouljin

Easily soloable in Heroic mode with achievements by BrM Monk.

A few notes:
Ook-Ook: pretty easy just avoid his ground pound and bananas while remembering to jump on the barrels when they drop if you want the achievement. Chi wave healing is your friend.

Hopitalus: Note that the number of hammer swings stacks when you grab multiple hammers. Chi wave can heal you through the rest of the damage.

Yan-Zhu: Kill the little adds as fast as possible (don't forget to bring your polyformic acid for achiev-o on last boss.) and this one is a faceroll.

Comment by DimaRomantic

You may go to the Specific Dungeons: "Stormstout Brewery", kill first & second bosses and leave party.
Then, again, join the queue to the Stormstout Brewery, kill 2 bosses, leave, and so on...
Killing two bosses will take two minutes and you`ll get 500k+ expierence (with guild bonus, but without rest and other bonuses).
When you leaves after second boss you will not get any cooldown or debuff.
This inst is choosen because you will get 100k+ for the first & 200k+ for the second bosses. Also, there is a lot of tresh.
Everything can be killed quick, without any dialogs, videos or long mechanics.
(When ney dungeon is opened for you, you have to visit tham once, in order to make quests)

You have not to warry about ger - you can buy it from vendors (http://www.wowhead.com/npc=61749#comments)
If you are a tank or healer, and you have not high-level friends, you can simply use LFR.
If you are DD or you have high-level friends, gather full party and simply farm instance throw LFR.

Comment by DarkDei7

(Patch 5.1.1)((still working on 5.2) The Best Lovely Charm Farming spot.
Surfing the net and trying as much thing as I could I finally found the spot!It appear to be the fastest and the easiest one!
In the Valley of the Four Winds,inside Stormstout Brewery,after the first boss,run straight to the stairs,and stand right in front of the small door near the end of the stairs that brings you to the second floor of the building.Well,right there loads of adds will spawn endlessly right here,running to you,ready to be farmed!.Just camp those adds ,I did 380 Lovely Charm in 30 mins.I was a level 86(now 87)Blood DK,and I soloed the entire first part of the dungeon to reach this spot.Doing this I found how mouch exp those adds,and the boss yelds to a solo player!Infact,if the boss dies you will gain 738240 exp(+369120 exp as Rested bonus) per kill! I simply did from 92% of lvl 86 to 2% of 87.So,except the fact that farming this boss grants you 10% of your total experience bar,and I killed him in 9 minutes(using barrels make it easier since every time the boss is hitted by those barrels he takes 10% more dmg and the effect stacks,I reached 13 stacks),just go upstair and stand right in the front of the door,because a lot of mobs would otherwise ignore you and run downstair,and start doing aoe.Dont forgot that Hammers kills doesnt count toward the Lovely charm drop,so you wouldn't receive any of them if you blow a kill with that!Even,if you engage the next boss (Hoptallus) the spawnpoint will disappear and you will not be able to kill them anymore until you reset the whole instance.

Finally,the types of adds you will farm are three:

The first one is Bopper that have the most health.
The second one is Hopper that only explode to you,dealing 50000 dmg and suiciding himself.This spell has a cast time and can be easly avoided.
The third one is Hopling that melee you for a ridiculous amount of dmg and only rarely snares you.They have 79k health.

Have a good time and good luck farming Lovely Charms!

Comment by kakes

When dealing with the happy little adds that heal the final boss, they don't necessarily all need to be killed. In fact, it's often easier if one or two of them are left alive.

Those little guys channel their healing in a stream to the boss. You stand in the stream, you gain health and mana. Having the tank get an unending stream of health is always helpful and having the healer get an unending stream of mana is even moreso.

TL;DR Kill the adds save for one or two to heal the tank and give the healer infinite mana.

Comment by 1070110

During the beginning of the instance, Rogues should steer clear of shadowstepping behind the Aqua Dancers, as hitting the water and/or being in that area will cause you to automatically DC and continue to do so for the remainder of the instance.

Comment by 30049

Just a little info...

Normal

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 85.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 85-90.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is yellow difficulty lvl 85-88 and green difficulty lvl 89-90.

You can queue this dungeon as random dungeon lvl 85-87.

You have to be lvl 85 to obtain the quests.

Item level requirement: 358.

Heroic

You can enter this dungeon on foot at lvl 90.

You can queue this dungeon as specific dungeon lvl 90.

In the specific dungeon finder, this dungeon is yellow difficulty lvl 90.

You can queue this dungeon as random dungeon lvl 90.

Item level requirement: 435.

See more in this guide.

Comment by Pawprint

Cords to this dungeons instance are /way 36.07, 69.14 in Valley of the four winds.

Comment by 1440987

Stormstout Brewery Entrance: http://youtu.be/NBD10KlSefI

Comment by eric0707

Stormstout Brewery Dungeon entrance & location --> https://youtu.be/Lw0USNNMbVQ

Comment by Boxofbeer

Stormstout Brewery entrance https://youtu.be/w4G8J6uO6YE

Comment by WoWGnGP

Stormstout Brewery Entrance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isFYu-oXRBU&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Kanulol

Hi! A video how to complete all achievements, hope like it! Stormstout Brewery

Comment by Nevarii

I had to complete the 3 quests given by Mudmug, Chen Stormstout and then either Li Li or Emmi (I don't remember who) plus a follow up quest to get access to the dungeon entrance. It was not visible until I did these 4 quests.

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If Chromie Time is enabled, Stormstout Brewery's level range is 15-50, but can only be queued if you're using Chromie Time on the Mists of Pandaria expansion. Check more information on Chromie Time in our guide!

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Ook-Ook – Even for a hozen, Ook-Ook has a reputation for being uncouth and raucous. The monstrous creature and his cronies recently broke into the Stormstout Brewery and cracked open its precious beer casks to throw the greatest party of all time: Ookapalooza!
Hoptallus – Hoptallus is the bane of farmers throughout the Valley of the Four Winds - a virmen of mythic proportions that can consume entire fields of crops in a single night. Word has spread that the giant pest and his offspring have infested the brewery and begun devouring its stores of rice and barley.
Yan-Zhu the Uncasked – In a desperate attempt to save the family brewery, Uncle Gao set about concocting what he believed would be the ultimate ale, a full-bodied elixir of depthless flavor. Yet his bold experiment resulted in a bitter and extremely volatile alemental creature, dubbed Yan-Zhu the Uncasked.

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